excited - Story 48247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile smell of the hospital did nothing to dampen her spirits. The letter had been a beacon, a promise of a new reality. She'd been preparing for this moment for days.

The doctor, a stern-faced woman, gestured for her to sit. Her heart hammered against her ribs.

“Mrs. Rodriguez," the doctor began, "there's been an unfortunate clerical error."

"Oh, I think I know," she said, her voice high-pitched with suppressed glee. "The wrong files?"

The doctor looked surprised. "Indeed. Your results… belong to Mr. Garcia."

She gasped dramatically and then threw her hands up in the air. "Wonderful! Simply wonderful!"

Emotion: excited

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.21 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.05

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion excited. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 excited stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the excited emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the excited vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.809
`!`	0.564
`excitedly`	0.500
`🤩`	0.491
`!"`	0.466

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.721
`ness`	-0.519
`😞`	-0.424
`grieve`	-0.310
`😔`	-0.300